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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes

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Side account for reading through the Holmes canon (again) as well as other Holmes related thoughts. (she/her)

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 9h

Watson: Impossible to tell if Holmes is even aware of me.
Holmes, unprompted at every opportunity: Watson is essential to me, inseparable, part of my very flesh and being.

Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 9h

Holmes mentioning that he and Watson share a single heart and soul:

"Excellent! This is a colleague, Watson, after our own heart.

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"Good, Watson, very good—but quite inadmissable. Well, we can only possess our soul in patience

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 9h

Picturing Holmes shooting hard dry glitter from his eyes in Superman type laser beams

Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 9h

Watson, what the fuck does this mean?

Holmes leaned forward in his excitement and his eyes had the hard, dry glitter which shot from them when he was keenly interested.

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 10h

I was going to include a screencap of Sir Charles’s colonialism and race science theories but ehh, you don’t need that

Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 10h

Why do we bash “Hell-Hounds” for hunting and killing all the Baskervilles but we never question if the Baskerville has bad vibes? Or if they’re just unpleasant to be around?

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 10h

"Footprints."

"A man's or a woman's?"

Dr. Mortimer looked strangely at us for an instant, and his voice sank almost to a whisper as he answered.

"Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 10h

This is always the funny thing with old novels: “it was completely isolated from the world if you don’t count the servants and laborers and traders”

Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 10h

Having to talk to a literal phrenologist because he’s the only “educated” person around… okay 🙄

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 10h

Literally all these men, including Mortimer, seem insufferable, but god forbid they make friends outside of their class

"The moor is very sparsely inhabited, and those who live near each other are thrown very much together. For this reason I saw a good deal of Sir Charles Baskerville. With the exception of Mr. Frankland, of Lafter Hall, and Mr. Stapleton, the naturalist, there are no other men of education within many miles.

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 11h

People always write Sherlock Holmes as an atheist in adaptations, but him being a Christmas and Easter Catholic is so much more interesting.

Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 11h

Don’t confuse the little affair of the Vatican cameos with Holmes’ other Pope commissioned case:

“his famous investigation of the sudden death of Cardinal Tosca—an inquiry which was carried out by him at the express desire of His Holiness the Pope”

Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 11h

“Guess I missed that when I was solving crimes for the Pope” is such a flex

"I must thank you," said Sherlock Holmes, "for calling my attention to a case which certainly presents some features of interest. I had observed some newspaper comment at the time, but I was exceedingly preoccupied by that little affair of the Vatican cameos, and in my anxiety to oblige the Pope I lost touch with several interesting English cases. This article, you say, contains all the public facts?"

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 12h

Excuse you, the brandy is a medical professional

Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 17h

Why are they roasting him in his death report 😭

Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 17h

It is a short account of the facts elicited at the death of Sir Charles Baskerville which occurred a few days before that date."
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Sir Charles was a widower, and a man who may be said to have been in some ways of an eccentric habit of mind.

Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 20h

Holmes does not have great customer service skills

When Dr. Mortimer had finished reading this singular narrative he pushed his spectacles up on his forehead and stared across at Mr. Sherlock Holmes. The latter yawned and tossed the end of his cigarette into the fire.

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 1d

Just love the phrase “saints have never flourished in those part”

Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 1d

Baskerville was held by Hugo of that name, nor can it be gainsaid that he was a most wild, profane, and godless man. This, in truth, his neighbours might have pardoned, seeing that saints have never flourished in those parts

Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 1d

“he lost himself in a monograph which he had undertaken upon the Polyphonic Motets of Lassus.”

Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 1d

TWO on the human ear

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 1d

Secret codes too

“I am fairly familiar with all forms of secret writings, and am myself the author of a trifling monograph upon the subject, in which I analyze one hundred and sixty separate ciphers, but I confess that this is entirely new to me.”

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 1d

He has been guilty of several!

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Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 1d

With your permission I will read it to you." Holmes leaned back in his chair, placed his finger-tips together, and closed his eyes, with an air of resignation.

Sara Reads Sherlock Holmes @sarareadsholmes.bsky.social · 1d

Holmes and Watson can’t even read a cursed manuscript without flirting smh

Holmes stretched out his hand for the manuscript and flattened it upon his knee. "You will observe, Watson, the alternative use of the long s and the short. It is one of several indications which enabled me to fix the date." I looked over his shoulder